Carmine ‘Mino’ Raiola was born November 4, 550 in Nocera Inferiore, a city that is about 29 kilometers from Naples. Very young he moved to the Netherlands with his parents to the city of Haarlem and there he played in the lower categories. Thus began the story of one of the best agents in football history.
Mino’s father was a mechanic and the main breadwinner of a humble family. This man gathered savings and opened a pizzeria that he called Napoli and in that small place the dreams of Raiola son began.
“My father worked 18 either 20 hours a day. With 11 either 12 years I went to work with him. He was in the kitchen, so… what could he do? He could wash the dishes. And I still like to wash the dishes. It gives me a kind of peace to clean things, you see the immediate result of your work,” Mino said several years ago.
At the end of the years 80 began with his work in the soccer player agency and realized to know thanks to the negotiation that took the Dutchman Dennis Bergkamp from Ajax in Amsterdam to Inter Milan. Mino speaks seven languages: Italian, Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish and Portuguese.
So many years dedicated to the representation of players have brought great dividends. To such an extent that the magazine Forbes included him in the list of the richest in the world by entering only in 2020 about $72 millions of dollars in commissions for his work with great soccer players.
He discovered Pavel Nedved in the Czech Republic and took him to Italy. However, the player with whom he made his greatest fortune was with Zlatan Ibrahimović, a Swedish striker who has moved more than $178 millions of dollars in transfers in clubs such as Juventus, Inter Milan, AC Milan, FC Barcelona, PSG, Manchester United and LA Galaxy.
List of the best players in Raiola’s portfolio
Erling Haaland: $73,41 millions of dollars
Matthijs De Ligt: $67,35 million
Gianluigi Donnarumma: $68,11 millions
Paul Pogba: $57,63 million
Marco Verr atti: $36,63 millions
Stefan de Vrij: $28,43 millions
Hirving Lozano: $36,43 million
Ryan Gravenberch: $36,67 million
Moise Kean: $34,34 millions
Donyell Malen: $15,29 millions
Marcus Thuram: $12,96 million s
Alessio Romagnoli: $12,85 millions
Denzel Dumfries: $12,96 million
Justin Kluivert: $18,73 million
Myron Boadu: $,72 millions
Calvin Stengs: $15,72 millions
Owen Wijndal: $10,57 million
Henrikh Mkhitaryan: $,48 millions
Alphonse Areola: $9,35 million
Konstantinos Manolas: $5,24 million
One of the curiosities that the portfolio currently has of Raiola players is that none belong to clubs like: FC Barcelona, Liverpool FC, Manchester City or Bayern Munich. However, Haaland’s sale to one of those clubs could be imminent in the summer market. City and Real Madrid are the favorites to have the Norwegian.
This Thursday 28 in April, a rumor about his alleged death spread and Mino Raiola himself took it upon himself to deny this: “Current state of health for those who wonder: pissed off for the second time in 4 months kill me They also seem capable of resuscitation.
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